Задания на 5.09.2021 "Олимпиадное движение"

6-7 классы

Part 2 (15 minutes)

Maximum points – 6

Reading

Read a newspaper article about school. Choose from the list A–H the sentence which best summarizes each part 1–6 of the article. There are two extra sentences you do not need to use.

A. They were more interested in the school’s past than its present.

B. In many ways they behaved just as they had done 20 years earlier.

C. Despite all that had happened, everyone seemed quite happy and satisfied.

D. Many of the women said that they would attend.

E. They were doing jobs that the school had not expected them to do.

F. The head teacher met them to welcome them back to school.

G. Once they had eaten it was as if they were schoolgirls again.

H. Anne’s aim was to let them know about her achievements.

Back to school

Nicolette Jones attends a school reunion and finds that times change, people do not

(1) When Anne Bechar set out to find the 80 or so women – myself included – who were at Leeds Girls’ High School with her until 1979, it was, she admits, because she had lots of good news she wanted to tell them. ‘I wasn’t very academic at school, and I felt I was a nobody,’ she says. “Now I have lived for years in Paris and eight years in the Middle East, I have a family and I run a successful business. I feel that I am somebody.”

(2) Anne’s detective work resulted in the tracking-down of all but a dozen of our ex-classmates. Then we received our invitations and 44 of us, astonished by the realization that we had been old girls for 20 years, agreed to show up for a lunch. Another 20 sent news, good wishes and apologies.

(3) So, once we’d had our hair done – and wondering whether we would recognize each other – we assembled in a dining hall that made us think of cabbage and sponge pudding. By the end of lunch it could have been 20 years ago; it was like a bad episode of soap opera in which everything that had happened since was a dream.

(4) It was not simply that in our own eyes we were unchanged. It was that we had gone back to the roles of two decades ago. Bryony, our head girl, who is now a doctor, asked kind questions with exactly the grace towards younger girls that made her popular then. Anne was told off by her friend Ruth for talking down to her, exactly as she had done at school. I showed off. We had become 14-year-olds in 37-year-old bodies.

(5) The school authorities, who had arranged a tour of new buildings for us, found us uncooperative. We didn’t want to see the new language labs and the new music block. We all wanted to see desks we sat at, we all walked along the corridors we had regularly raced down and talked in, and remembered. We wanted to meet the ghosts of our childhood selves.

(6) We were amazed, though, at the well-stocked careers room. In our day, careers advice was a teacher who mostly suggested nursing and secretarial work. Her limited imagination had not had much effect. Among us were doctors, lawyers, accountants, pharmacists and laboratory technicians. Diane, who was enough of a rebel at school to break the rules about wearing make-up, is now a beautician. Mandy is now a school governor. And I became a journalist.

Part 3 (30 minutes)

Maximum points – 39

Use of English

Task 1

Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question 1–10, mark the letter next to the correct word – A, B, C or D. The first one is done for you.

Example answer: 0 A B C D

Weather

Weather influences the lives (0) _______ everyone. The climate of any country depends on its position on Earth, its (1) ________ from the sea and how high it is. In countries which have sea all (2) _______ them, like Britain and New Zealand, winters are mild and summers are cool. There is not a huge change from one season to (3) ______ . Countries near the Equator have hot weather all year with some (4) ______ rain, except in deserts where it rains (5) ______ little. Above the desert there are no clouds in the sky so the (6) ______ of the sun can easily warm the ground during the day but it gets very cold at night. People are always (7) _______ in unusual weather and pictures of tornadoes, for example, shown on television. Strong winds and rain can (8) _______ a lot of damage to buildings and in spite of modern (9) ______ of weather forecasting they can (10) _____ surprise us.

A

B

C

D

0

of

from

by

to

1

distance

space

depth

length

2

through

beside

around

near

3

next

another

later

other

4

hard

large

heavy

great

5

not

quite

more

very

6

heat

fire

light

temperature

7

attracted

interested

keen

excited

8

make

happen

have

cause

9

jobs

tools

methods

plan

10

yet

still

already

ever

 

Task 2

Read the text below and choose the correct word A, B, C or D for each question 11-29. The first one is done for you.

A friend in the rain

Last week I (0) _В___ home after playing tennis when it (11) _______ raining very heavily. ‘O, no, I (12) ________ soaked before I (13) ________ home’, I thought. ‘I wish I (14) __________ to bring my raincoat’. But unfortunately I (15) _________ it at home. How stupid of me! I (16) _________ to bring it with me. Luckily just then a friend of mine passed in her car and offered me a lift. ‘(17) _________ home?’ she asked, ‘or (18)_________ to go for a cup of hot tea?’ ‘I think I’d rather you (19) _________ me home,’ I said. ‘If I (20) ____________ my clothes, I know I (21) ________ ill, and then I (22) ___________ to play in the tennis tournament next week. And I (23) ___________ hard for the last month.’ ‘I (24) _________ for you to change if you (25) __________,’ she told me.’ ‘I think it’s time you (26) _________ for a change. You (27) ___________ too much about things lately. And the one who (28) __________ too much (29) ____________ ill more easily. It’s got nothing to do with the rain!’

6

A

B

C

D

0

walk

was walking

walked

have been walking

11

had started

was starting

started

start

12

will get

would get

was getting

got

13

reached

reach

will reach

would reach

14

remember

remembered

will remember

had remembered

15

leave

have left

had left

left

16

always forgot

always forget

always forgetting

forgot always

17

will you go

do you going

are you go

are you going

18

are you wanting

do you want

are you want

will you want

19

take

will take

took

have taken

20

don’t change

will not change

did not change

would not change

21

fall

felt

would fall

will fall

22

am not able

won’t be able

wasn’t able

would not be able

23

was practising

had been practising

have been practising

had practised

24

will wait

wait

would wait

am waiting

25

likes

will like

liked

like

26

will relax

relaxed

relax

are relaxing

27

have been worrying

had been worrying

have worried

are worrying

28

worried

is worrying

worries

worry

29

falls

felt

will fall

fall

Task 3

There’s a word missing in each of these proverbs 30–39. Choose the correct one from the three possibilities.

30. An Englishman’s home is his …..

a) security b) castle c) palace

31. Let sleeping dogs …..

a) sleep b) dream c) lie

32. Many ….. make light work.

a) servants b) hands c) cooks

33. It takes all sorts to make a …..

a) world b) war c) salad

34. Prevention is better than …..

a) cure b) punishment c) medicine

35. ….. is thicker than water.

a) coffee b) blood c) soup

36. A miss is as good as a …..

a) mister b) mile c) wife

37. Birds of a ….. flock together.

a) family b) cage c) feather

38. It’s no use crying over …..milk.

a) sour b) spilt c) tinned

39. ….. begins at home.

a) charity b) learning c) love